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public offering : an offering of corporate securities to the general public or to potential purchasers whose level of knowledge or access to information about the securities is dependent upon the disclosures of the corporation compare private offering NOTE: Public offerings are subject to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 for filing a registration statement before the offering can take place. ...
Offer of shares to the public
Offer of shares to the public. Shares and debentures of limited companies, when allotted or agreed to be allotted with a view to sale to the public, must when offered to the public comply with the provision of s. 38 of the Companies Act, 1929; and see PROSPECTUS. Further, any offer in writing to any member of the public of any shares for purchase except as provided, i.e. (a) shares dealt in with permission of any recognised stock exchange in Great Britain; (b) shares allotted with a view to sale to the public; and (c) offers to persons doing regular business in the purchase or sale of shares, must comply with s. 356 of the same Act; s. 356 also absolutely prohibits 'share pushing,' i.e., any person going from house to house (not being an office used for business purposes) offering shares for subscription or purchase to the public or any member of the public...
private offering
private offering : the sale of an issue of securities directly by the issuer to one or a few large investors without any public offering called also private placement compare public offering NOTE: A private offering is exempt from the requirements of filing a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission and distributing prospectuses to potential buyers before the sale. ...
public accommodations
public accommodations Federal and state laws prohibit discrimination against certain protected groups in businesses and places that are considered "public accommodations." The definition of a "public accommodation" may vary depending upon the law at issue (i.e. federal or state), and the type of discrimination involved (i.e. race discrimination or disability discrimination). Generally speaking, it may help to think of public accommodations as most (but not all) businesses or buildings that are open to (or offer services to) the general public. ...
tender offer
tender offer : a public offer to purchase a specified number or range of shares from shareholders usually at a premium and in an attempt to gain control of the issuing company ...
Tender offer
Tender offer, means a public offer to buy a minimum number of shares directly from a corporation's shareholders at a fixed price, usually at a substantial premium over the market price, in an effort to take control of the corporation, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1480....
publish
publish 1 : to make known to another or to the public generally NOTE: For purposes of defamation, a defamatory communication made to only one third party may be considered published. 2 a : to proclaim officially [ an enactment] b : to declare (a will) to be a true and valid expression of one's last will c : to reproduce (an opinion) in a reporter 3 a : to disseminate to the public or provide notice of to the public or to an individual (as through a mass medium) [ordered to the citation in the legal notices for three weeks] see also notice by publication at notice b : to distribute or offer for distribution to the public copies of (a copyrightable work) by some transfer of ownership, rental, lease, or loan 4 : utter pub·lish·er n ...
Publicly
With exposure to popular view or notice without concealment openly as property publicly offered for sale an opinion publicly avowed a declaration publicly made...
disclosure
disclosure : an act or instance of disclosing: as a : a lender's revelation of information to a consumer under the Truth in Lending Act that enables the consumer to make an intelligent decision about the loan b : the revelation to investors of financial information about a corporation or municipality and about the security it is offering for sale see also prospectus, registration statement NOTE: Disclosure is required for a public offering. c : revelation by a corporate insider (as an officer) for approval of a business transaction that involves self-dealing d : a debtor in bankruptcy's revelation to creditors of a bankruptcy plan ...
underwrite
underwrite -wrote [-rōt, -rōt] -writ·ten [-rit-n, -rit-n] -writ·ing 1 a : to assume liability for (a risk) as an insurer [the insurer s individuals, not the group, in franchise health insurance] b : to issue or set the terms of (an insurance policy) 2 : to agree to purchase (all or part of a security issue) usually on a fixed date at a fixed price with the purpose or plan to resell by means of a public offering [was a security brokerage firm which as part of its business underwrote speculative new issues "UFITEC, S.A. v. Carter, 135 Cal. Rptr. 607 (1977)"] 3 a : to put up funds for or guarantee financial support of b : to assess the risk of (as a loan) ...
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